Participatory City-Making: City 2.0

The TED prize was recently awarded to a project called City 2.0. The goal is to bring people, resources and ideas together through technology. Call it crowdsourcing for better city-living. It’s a flashy website and at least worth the visit to check out. Curiously, it’s been in place now for about a month (as far as we can tell) and only has 16 registered participants in Vancouver. It’ll be interesting to follow the site to see how many users it can get involved. The challenge from there on in is to discover if online tools can be truly effective in stimulating meaningful change. We’ll be watching…